Just getting started in real estate investing or old sources of properties running dry? Check out the following 6 sources of discounted homes which may be a great fit for your house flipping business. 1. FSBOs Believe it or not there are still homeowners out there who have equity or even own their homes free and clear and who are ready to deal. Unfortunately those who have signed up for some for sale by owner sites may have invested thousands in junk marketing but there are nuggets to be found.... 

1. Having to Pay Taxes Putting off on getting started in real estate investing because you may have to pay taxes on the income you earn is perhaps the most ridiculous excuse of all. That’s like saying you wouldn’t accept $20 million if you won the lottery because you would owe taxes on it. For that matter why work at all? 2. The Market is Bad There are more opportunities for flipping houses right now than ever before and homes are more affordable than they have ever been. Do you really want... 

Is flipping houses purely a dangerous way of gambling on the housing market? Should it really all be about cash flow? Sadly it seems that some still just don’t get flipping houses or at least they haven’t been successful at it or make more money from acquiring rental properties. Though one blogger who recently claimed ‘flipping houses is not real estate investing’ and that it relies on speculation was certainly irresponsible, misleading or at least terribly misinformed. A prime example of... 

Are custom mobile apps the Must Have marketing tool for real estate investing companies this year? Next to video marketing it is widely accepted that mobile marketing is one of the most important differentiators between winners and losers in business during the next 18 months. So does your real estate investing business need its own mobile app in order to compete and win? There are many ways to improve your mobile marketing capacity and presence without having a mobile app. Optimizing your site... 

There is a lot of competition out there amongst real estate investing companies who are all fighting over tenants but the following 5 fatal flaws could be causing prospective renters to automatically pass over your ads… 1. You Look Like an Agent Just as many of those in the real estate investing business don’t like working with real estate agents, neither do renters, especially if their credit isn’t perfect. You may find all kinds of tools for creating neat looking ads but carefully weigh... 

Want to boost the results from you blog this year but worried changes may actually work against you? Want to know how to never make a critical mistake again? Making changes to your web assets or business processes used to be a perilous, expensive experiment which could cripple your business, income and reputation. Not anymore. Making visual changes to your WordPress blog has never been easier and the same goes for changing the flow of your site. This is important as every minute factor can have a... 

Flipping houses is about to get a lot tougher. How can you keep the profits rolling in? Thousands of those who have jumped into real estate investing in the last couple of years to cash in on foreclosures by flipping houses have no idea what it is like to work in an up market. Especially a market where foreclosures, short sales and REOs are scarce. Few investors in the business today have experienced bidding wars or just how tough sellers and Realtors can be when things are good. So is it time... 

Can you be creative in putting your deals together without being considered a criminal or is it all a step closer to a new 6’ x 8’ residence with cold floors and bars on the windows? ‘Creative real estate investing’ has almost become a four letter word in many people’s eyes. You can’t blame sellers, lenders, agents and law enforcement from raising an eyebrow when they see the term in the after math of the recent meltdown but this doesn’t mean that being creative is always illegal and... 

What’s better, real estate investing for lump sums of cash now or relying on cash flow? It’s the big debate of two different schools of real estate. Building a portfolio of rental properties for cash flow and flipping houses for fast cash now. Which is the smarter real estate investing strategy? Of course there are pros to both but ultimately what is right for you comes down to your personal goals and needs as well as where you are starting from. If you already have millions in the bank and... 

Craving the top spot in Google search results? Check out our quick guide to the links you need and the links that will sabotage your rankings… If you want your real estate investing company’s website or blog to be found and bring in leads you have to get serious about improving your placement in search engine results. If you have done any reading up and research on SEO so far you have probably heard a lot about links. Yes, it can be ridiculously confusing but before you go off and spend the...